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Syrian guilty of torture, Germany rules
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A former Syrian secret police officer was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the torture of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago, a ruling the top United Nations human rights official described as "historic."
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KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) — A German court has convicted a former Syrian secret police officer of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus
By Tamara Qiblawi and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN A German court is set to rule on the case of a Syrian colonel accused of committing crimes against humanity on Thursday, in the first-ever torture trial against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
By Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh and Christian Streib, CNN A German court sentenced a Syrian army colonel to life in prison in the first-ever torture trial against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights said in Koblenz on Thursday.
A German court is set to rule on the case of a Syrian colonel accused of committing crimes against humanity on Thursday, in the first-ever torture trial against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
A German court found a former Syrian intelligence officer guilty of crimes against humanity on Thursday at a prison just outside of the city of Damascus, and sentenced him to life in prison.
KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) — A former Syrian secret police officer was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail
A German court has convicted a former Syrian secret police officer of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago.
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in jail for crimes against humanity in a landmark first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria.
A German court has found a Syrian former army colonel guilty of crimes against humanity, handing him a life sentence. The trial is the first to take place anywhere examining state-sponsored torture in Syrian civil war.
A former Syrian secret police officer was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago.
A German court found a former Syrian intelligence officer guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to life in prison — a first after a decade of war.
A German court convicts a former Syrian secret police officer for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth tells Brent Goff that the sentencing of Anwar Raslan is a historic moment.
A former Syrian secret police officer was convicted by a German court Thursday of crimes against humanity for overseeing the torture of detainees at a jail near Damascus a decade ago, a ruling the top United Nations human rights official described as "historic."
